The Reman Challenge was hosted for the fifth time by BORG Automotive, with three students from the research laboratory taking part. The team of Abdulrahman Khalid, Timea Czvetkó and Gergely Halász finished in the third place.

The challenge was about research and innovate transformative solutions that can revolutionize operators' work conditions in remanufacturing operations. From virtual reality to human-robot collaboration, your only boundaries are the limits of feasibility and scalability of the solutions.

On 22nd November 2023, the ITDK conference took place at the University of Pannonia, aiming to introduce students to the academic life. At the conference, students can present their scientific work. Three students from our laboratory participated in this conference. Mónika Gugolya was awarded first place, Judit Horváth and Norbert Parádi were awarded second place. Congratulations to them for their achievement!

The Hungarian Fuzzy Society is a division of the János Neumann Computer Science Society. The prize is awarded in two categories, for students in higher education (BSc, MSc) and PhD students. In both categories, it is intended to recognise outstanding scientific and creative activity based on relevant publications. András Darányi, PhD student at the Faculty of Engineering, won the Hungarian Fuzzy Society's Youth Award. Congratulations for this award!

Gartner just published the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2024 report. The Augmented connected workforce is in 9th place, which is the main goal of the Operator 4.0 research network led by our research group.

It was a great pleasure to meet again with the part of the Operator 4.0 research network at the APMS Conference in Trondheim. We discussed a lot, and we heard so many great presentations about human-centered solutions.

Our Special Session proposal is accepted for the 18th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, in Austria. We are inviting the researchers to apply your work to Human-centric Digital Twins for Human-centred Manufacturing special session. For more details please find the call for papers and our special session description.

Tamás Ruppert will be a co-chair at the APMS 2023 Conference, in Norway. He will hold the Workforce Evolutionary Pathways in Smart Manufacturing Systems Special Session with Chiara Cimini.

The first Operator 4.0 Symposium took place between May 22nd and 24th, 2023, hosted by the Faculty of Engineering at University of Pannonia. Prominent researchers from the Operator 4.0 research network led by Dr. Tamás Ruppert  and Prod. David Romero participated in the event, coming from more than 12 countries, a total of 23 participants. The first day of the symposium was held behind closed doors, during which the group decided to release a Manifesto establishing human-centered research directions, to be followed by further statements. Additionally, a collaborative network will be established from the Operator 4.0 laboratories managed by the 17 institutions associated with the groups. The event was attended by, among others, the creators of the Operator 4.0 concept: Prof. Dr. David Romero from Mexico and Prof. Dr. Johan Stahre from Sweden. The symposium was inaugurated by Dean Dr. Sándor Németh and Vice Rector Prof. Dr. János Abonyi. 

In 2022 we finally met in Stuttgart to discuss lot of ideas and projects. The 27th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), was held from 6th-9th September 2022 in Stuttgart, Germany. During the special session at the ETFA conference in Stuttgart. We organised a special session about Industry 5.0 – Augmenting the Human Worker in Balanced Automation Systems. You can find the published and presented papers in the SS here.